Recently-published research shows larval Crown of Thorns Starfish (CoTS) clone themselves. A larval CoTS can split, resulting in TWO larval CoTS, … [Read More...]
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Larval cloning of the Crown of Thorns Starfish
My visit to the Lizard Island Research Station
On the 11th of September my family and I arrived on Lizard Island. To get to the Island we flew on a tiny plane which could only fit 12 people on … [Read More...]
Stones tell ancient human story of Lizard Island
People visited and stayed on the island for thousands of years before Captain James Cook passed by in 1770 and called it ‘Lizard’. Dingaal Aboriginal … [Read More...]
Deep seagrass, blue carbon & climate change
Deep-water seagrass is sequestering carbon, mitigating climate change. Photosynthetic marine plants (especially seagrasses, tidal marshes and … [Read More...]
Reef recovery in 2018
In 2018 the corals spawned; juvenile corals that settled back after mass bleaching of 2016 and 2017 continued to grow; and many more appeared. Fish … [Read More...]